Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.